Progress report year 6: Zurich flood resilience alliance phase II

The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance (Alliance) was launched in 2013 with the goal of increasing investment in building community-based resilience through private, public, and government partnerships. Based on the successes of the first five-year phase (2013-2018) of the Alliance, the Z Zurich Foundation extended funding for a second phase, 2018-2024. For its second phase the Alliance ambitiously committed to build the resilience of 2 million people and increase investment towards resilience by USD 1 billion.

However, achieving these goals tells only a partial tale of the scale of change we are seeing across the Alliance. After five years of Phase II, Alliance teams are reporting: 

• Enhanced resilience (and thus fewer losses and damages) in the face of floods;
• Communities that are empowered to advocate for their resilience needs; 
• Government and community adoption of new resilience practices, including nature-based solutions and climate-resilience livelihood practices;
• Donor funding to expand on good resilience practices, such as early warning systems (EWS) and a new parametric insurance scheme.